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About 2 years ago, my wife and I decided to venture into the world of RV's. We have always loved camping with friends but have never had our own camper. We started looking around at run of the mill campers, and although they were convenient and easy to find, we never really liked any that we saw. One day my wife informed me that as she was growing up, her Uncle had an Airstream and she always wanted to have one. Since this was our first venture into camping, we didnt want to invest alot of money into a newer one. We wanted to get our feet wet with something more affordable and one that we could invest time into and renovate. So we turned to eBay and found a 1976 Sovereign that was in our price and happened to be less than an hour away. Once we got it home we started looking into what we needed to do to get it into camping shape. The more we looked the more we thought about just biting the bullet and going for a full restore. Once we came to that conclusion, I turned to the internet to try and gather as much information as I could about what we were getting into. Thats when I found this amazing site. I have poured over the restoration forums on this site for the last year and a half marvelling at all the craftsmanship out there and soaking up priceless information about Airstreams. With folks like Jim & Susan, malconium, uwe, jcferguson, SmokelessJoe, Zeppelinium, PizzChop, Ken J, AMerryCan, markdoane, Andy at InlandRV, and many many others I have gained a wealth of information about Airstream renovation. We feel very confident with our decision to got all out on our remodel thanks to the information shared on this site. Like many others here we wanted to share our experience so that maybe others can get the kind of information we have recieved from this site. Now on to the renovation...